Knoden builds privacy-first personal software. Its first product is PIM: a personal information manager that puts your journal, todos, work log, calendar, and mail in one place — and gives you an AI assistant that actually knows the whole picture, without shipping any of it to someone else’s servers.

Why we built this

Most people’s personal data is scattered — a todo app here, a calendar there, a journal in a notebook or a separate note-taking app, work notes somewhere else entirely, and now, increasingly, an AI chatbot that knows none of it unless you paste your whole life into a browser tab. And if you do that, it’s sitting on somebody else’s server.

PIM keeps all of it together, and its AI assistant runs locally on your own machine through Ollama — nothing you write leaves your computer to get a useful answer.

What’s in PIM

  • Journal — reflective writing, with its own AI conversation partner.
  • Todo — task tracking, with a choice of planning styles (GTD, Eisenhower Matrix, and others).
  • Work log — a running record of work, in whatever management style fits (Agile, Scrum, PMP, and others).
  • Calendar — scheduling, with the same conversational assistant and search.
  • Mail — a private archive for the messages worth keeping track of.
  • Conversational search — find anything across your journal and chat history in plain English, or with a handful of slash-commands, with no separate search screen to learn.

Each area — journal, todo, work log, calendar — comes with its own AI conversation partner, all running through the same private, local assistant.

Privacy is the default, not a setting

PIM doesn’t require an account or a cloud subscription. On first launch you choose: a private, embedded database just for you, or a shared one you host yourself if you want family or a small team using PIM together — either way, it’s your machine, your data.

Where things stand

PIM is in early testing with friends, family, and a small group of developers, built and supported directly by its creator as Knoden takes shape. It currently runs on Linux, with macOS and Windows support planned once we’ve had a chance to act on real feedback. If you’d like to try it, see Get PIM.